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Friday, March 19, 2010

This Sunday, 21st March, the DAP Parliament Leader Lim Kit Siang will hold the walk about in Donggongon town and the Tamu ground. Later he will adjourn to the statue of the late Peter Mojuntin in Donggongon Square to place a wreath for the remembrance of the Golden Son of the Kadazan. A lunch function is prepared in his honor in Kg. Inobong, Penampang.

Last Friday, 12th March, the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin had held his walk-about in Donggongon town and Tamu ground accompanied by the Sabah Chief Minister including the local leaders like MP for Penampang, YB Tan Sri Bernard Dompok; Assemblyman for Moyog YB Donald Peter Mojuntin; Assemblyman for Kepayan YB Edward Khoo and other local dignitaries.

After visiting the Tamu ground, they adjourned to a breakfast with the Rakyat at Maimunah Restaurant which is a stone’s throw (about 100 yards) from the imposing 15 feet high bronze statue of the Golden Son of the Kadazan located in the middle of Donggongon town.

The bronze statue of the late Datuk Peter Joinod Mojuntin in the middle of Donggongon Town.

Since the DPM was already in the heartland of Penampang and was within the vicinity of the late Peter Mojuntin Memorial Square, I was surprised why the organizers did not include the visit to the monument as a mark of respect to the Golden Son of the Kadazan.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Regrettably, YB Donald Peter Mojuntin, the son of the late Datuk Peter Joinod Mojuntin, did not even have the courtesy to invite the DPM by just walking him over to the Square as a show of respect to his (Donald’s) late father. A brief visit to see the bronze Statue, albeit no prior ceremony arrangement, would have been a monumental opportunity for the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia to pay his respect to the Golden Son of the Kadazan who was known to have fiercely fought for the Kadazan rights in particular.

Have the organizers missed this important itinerary of the DPM’s visit to the Penampang heartland?

Such rare visit to Peter Mojuntin Memorial Square by DPM himself would have been seen by the Kadazan community as magnanimous.

And here is the irony - the DAP Parliament Leader Lim Kit Siang accompanied by Sabah DAP team with the two DAP MP Teo Nee Cieng and Lim Lip Eng are coming to Donggongon Town but with a difference – to visit Peter Mojuntin Memorial Square and pay respect to the Golden Son of the Kadazan by laying a wreath in remembrance of this great Kadazan leader.